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<h2>Changing your privacy status</h2>














<p>For privacy reasons, you may want to hide your name from other
participants in your course or <a href="content.hlp?docId=ardt">project site</a>. Also, you may
not want them to be able to contact you through the site.</p>

<p>To hide your name from other participants, and make it so they
cannot contact you through the site, on the site's Home page, under
"Privacy Status", select <strong><code>Hide Me</code></strong>, and then click
<strong><code>Update</code></strong>.</p>

<p>To change your privacy status to visible, and make it so
participants can reach you through the site, select <strong><code>Show Me</code></strong>,
and then click <strong><code>Update</code></strong>.</p>

<p>You also can manage your privacy status for all sites to which you
belong from Preferences in <a href="content.hlp?docId=aqzy">My Workspace</a>. To do so, follow
these steps:</p>

<ol><li>In your My Workspace <a href="content.hlp?docId=arcc">menubar</a>, click
<strong><code>Preferences</code></strong>.<br /><br />
</li><li>Near the top, click <strong><code>Privacy Status</code></strong>.<br /><br />
</li><li>Use the drop-down list to choose a site, and then select either
<strong><code>Hide Me</code></strong> or <strong><code>Show Me</code></strong> to set your privacy status for
that site.<br /><br />
</li><li>Click <strong><code>Update</code></strong> to save your change.
</li></ol>

<p>Alternatively, you can click <strong><code>Show me in All Sites</code></strong> to make
yourself visible in all sites to which your belong, or <strong><code>Hide Me in
All Sites</code></strong> to hide yourself in all sites to which you belong.</p>


<h4>Things to consider</h4>

<p>Before changing your privacy status, consider the following:</p>

<ul><li>Students who are hidden will remain visible to instructors,
project owners, and assistants.

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</li><li>Students who are hidden will not be visible (to other
participants) in the Roster tool or the "Users Present" area.

<br /><br />
</li><li>Students who are hidden will not appear in the recipients list for
messages in the Messages tool.


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</li><li>Group visibility is not affected by an individual's privacy status.
</li></ul>


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